LL-L: "Linguistic zones" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 19.AUG.1999 (04)

[Sandy Fleming]

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From: Georg Deutsch [gdeutsch at estec.esa.nl]
Subject: "Linguistic zones"

Georg Deutsch at ESA
08/19/99 05:41 PM

Ron was referring to somebody who wrote:

>...I ask is this: for any linguistic community (defined by the usual
standard
>of mutual intelligibility) living in a contiguous region, by what name
would
>the speakers refer to the entire region? This must be the name of a place,
not a
>people; it must be in the language itself...

The suggested proposals (?) ("Deutschland" for the German speaking region;
"Nederland" for the Dutch speaking region etc.) are of course, as Ron
pointed
out already in his answer, not at all correct.
Maybe it is worthwhile to mention that there is a quite frequently used
standing expression in German to indicate what the querying person is
looking
for German: "Der deutsche Sprachraum". In my understanding this term does
not
include German speaking regions in Hungary, Russia, Brasilia etc. contrary
to
the French expression "Communite francophone".

Whilst I find the suggested answers very strange, I think the question as
such is interesting.
I doubt that there is such an expression in/for English, Frisian, Lowsaxon
or
Afrikaans. But I wonder, is there
such a term in Dutch? I am not aware of. Is anybody else?

regards,
Georg Deutsch

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